John, I'm still getting some of those "phantom" tracksbacks.
They show in my "recent trackbacks" list, but do not show up in the list in the dashboard so I can't delete them.
Please assist.
Thanks!
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I don't see any "phantom" trackbacks... The stats in your dashboard match those from your recent trackbacks component... Did you know that your dashboard shows only the 5 most recent trackbacks until you change the number on the dropdown list and click Display?

My mistake, they are in the dashboard, sorry.
(They did exists that phantom way before though, and I think someone else here experienced it the same way, they showed in recent, but not in the dashboard)

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Any luck stopping this stuff yet? I've been getting more and more from exactly the same ones. Is there any defense?

We're working on eliminating these spam using a couple of different techniques and developing some systems that will prevent these from arriving in the first place. We're doing a purge of these spams each business day, so there's no need for you to do anything at this time.

Thanks for doing that for our blogs. That is great news. we have been getting bombarded with spam when allowing anonymous comments. we have spent several hours of time over the past couple months in just deleting spam and looking out for it. Thanks for doing that, we really appreciate it. These guys change their ip addresses every time so we can't just ban them. Just to be clear, you are purging both trackback spam and comment spam right?

We are only purging trackback spam. Your best protection against comment spam is to disable anonymous commenting... We can purge batches of comment spam when the spammer uses a user account to post the spam, but we cannot do batch purges of comment spam by anonymous guests.

Is there any way to implement some sort of "Yes, I am a human" verification system, similar to what Blogger has? I know it isn't perfect, but I think it's safe to say that most comment spam comes from a spam bot and not a real person, right?

I've gotten a lot of complaints from people who would like to comment but don't want to have to go through the various steps of creating a reader account--and for a one-time comment, I can't say as I blame them. In order to accomodate those folks, and get some feedback, I enabled anonymous comments again and in the last three hours I've deleted 30 comment spams.

John, per the email suggestion that went out today I have disallowed anonymous commenting. I haven't had any problem with spammers, other than some minor referrer spam which you all have eliminated as far as I can tell. But I have no desire to spend hours cleaning out garbage.

I suspect, with no real way to confirm it, that adding robot exclusion meta tags to my template has kept me under the spammers' radar. Is that possible? That's not an option for people who need to have their blogs available to search engines. It seems to have worked for me.

First, I notice that the only comments I get are clearly spam. The subjects for most of them are too nasty to even discuss here. The Spam filter really helps, and I use it. Some make it through but not many.

However, this protection seems to keep out real live interested comments. Is there a way to encourage live people to submit comments that exclude the automatic spammers? (Of course, I have to take responsibility for maybe not having a blog that attracts many comments, but only one in a year is a bit low, even for me.)

I comment a lot on other blogs and there seems to be a pattern on other blogs, where a spam blocker screen pops up that has letters and numbers that are not readable by computers that must be typed in to weed out computer spam.

I also agree that I would always want to review comments first.

I have rambled on, and shall now let John advise me as he always does so well._________________Bill Dueease